The Abandoned Villainess Takes Everything This Time - Chapter 172

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172.
Chapter 38. Beginning and End
Lillian had prayed desperately, again and again.
‘Creator God, please tell me something now!’
I’ve already rescued all the Controllers who were nearly offered as sacrifices here.
Isn’t that enough?
‘I can’t fix every single person’s conscience for them!’
While she desperately sought an answer from the divine, Evren wrapped his arms around her.
“Lillian. We can’t delay any longer. Outside, now!”
“Hah—!”
This wouldn’t do. Escape came before doubt.
They couldn’t very well die together in the Temple.
With the Nullification Barrier gone, the Temple no longer posed any obstacle.
In the blink of an eye, Lillian managed to flee the Temple alongside him—but the moment they stepped outside, her face went pale.
Every mountain peak visible from the Temple was glowing a crimson red.
And not just the peaks.
All the Temples capable of housing large numbers of Controllers shimmered with that ominous hue.
More than she could count on her fingers.
“This is….”
“The Ritual Sacrifice wasn’t being performed in just one place.”
“Ah….”
A chill ran down her spine.
Only then did she understand.
Why Iris had been so confidently assured right until the very end.
Because she had deliberately prepared for this.
‘Stopping Iris here doesn’t mean it’s over.’
The poison commanding the suppression of Controllers had already been spread throughout the entire realm.
Say Iris was the one who spread it.
But those humans who thoughtlessly picked up that poison and swallowed it whole—
Those who chose the easy path by using others?
Lillian.
So when she heard the divine voice, grown weary as if power itself were ebbing away, Lillian understood what she had to do.
She raised her hand into the empty air.
<Ability Users are>
The moment she poured her Control Power into the words, they blazed with light in the void.
Like silver solder at work, the letters shimmered silver before vanishing entirely.
<forbidden from forcibly touching>
The words blazed brilliant silver before melting away completely.
<Controllers>
As she wrote the sentence, she felt absolute certainty.
“This is it.”
This phrase—destined to become the First Law of Ability Users and Controllers in this world—
She had come here to inscribe this law in the Creator God’s stead.
And just before the final words were completely absorbed into the world—
“Lillian!”
Lillian spun around.
Iris was catching up to her.
Even as Monsterification progressed, her guards came with her.
“You threatened the Empire’s future—! Do you really think you can escape Divine Punishment?”
“….”
“You selfish villainess. You tore down everything for the greater good! You trampled on those who suffer!”
Lillian regarded Iris with cold eyes.
Ah, so she would keep up her pretense of righteousness in front of everyone to the very end.
But Iris wasn’t the only source of this evil.
“You and everyone else who participated in this wickedness.”
Behind Lillian’s back, silver particles shimmered and gleamed.
A silhouette emerged, as if drawn countless times with delicate brushstrokes.
Like an infinite number of wings….
“Now you will all pay the price.”
“…!”
“Watch. The Divine Punishment I bring down now is all because of you.”
May the light that burns away all wickedness descend.
Thus began the White Night of Perniers.
* * *
The first thing the imprisoned people saw was a thin white beam of light descending from the blackened sky.
And it struck not once, but twice, three times, and more.
“Ahhhhh!”
“F-fire—!”
Those about to perform the Ritual Sacrifice shrieked in alarm.
Those who fled in the chaos stared at the sight before them in disbelief.
“The world….”
It was burning as punishment.
All the Temples either collapsed spectacularly or burned with flames.
Those who had fled gazed up at the sky and gasped in wonder.
“Look there!”
The sky filled with silver butterfly wings.
And above the hill near the Central Temple, wings inscribed with countless silver threads gleamed.
But those watching this scene were not only the people from a thousand years past.
“Lillian!”
“The Young Miss—.”
The people in the Sanctuary of the original time were also witnessing it.
At the center of the World Tree that had appeared in the Sanctuary, an elliptical mirror-like afterimage connected them.
It remained connected thanks to all the precious Artifacts that Lillian had brought here.
Marguerite and the Shadows of the Baltazar Family desperately clung to the fading afterimage before it could vanish.
“No, no! Don’t disappear!”
“Our young lady!”
“Someone, bring Holy Relics! Throw them through if you have to!”
“She’s writing the law right now, isn’t she!? Surely that’s what’s happening!?”
“If we’re not mistaken—!”
Everyone witnessed Lillian inscribing the law of this world itself.
Then a commotion broke out among those who had come from the Temple.
The Grand Cleric sat slumped in a half-unconscious state.
He had nearly fainted once already when Lillian suddenly seized a great number of Holy Relics.
“Grand Cleric!”
“Ah….”
Ambrosio, the High Priest, pressed his trembling hand to his forehead.
What had he himself once said in a conversation with Lillian long ago?
‘On that night when the Creator God made the night sky shine white with divine fire across the entire Empire, the Central Temple too could not escape those heavenly flames.’
‘My rank never appeared once in a thousand years, so it was omitted from the new scriptures.’
‘That is correct.’
Because the divine had punished the fallen Ability Users, the rank of Infinite Wings had no record before or after.
For it was utterly unique.
Lillian was the first, and would be the last—it could be no other way.
“The Saint herself, as the true Incarnation, has brought down the Divine Punishment…!”
Beginning and end existed in that very place.
All trembled as they watched the burning scene of a thousand years ago.
And after the white wings’ silhouette shone in the dark night sky—
The image caught in the World Tree vanished.
* * *
After the blinding light faded.
Iris gasped, clutching her injured right leg.
“Ugh….”
“You’re tougher than expected.”
“…!”
Lillian looked down at her, laughing coldly.
Iris’s eyes darted frantically toward her guards.
‘My… my tools…’
They had all been struck by Divine Punishment. Their condition was too horrible to bear looking at.
Iris clenched her teeth and glared up at Lillian.
Why? Why do I keep losing like this?
I had the advantage this time, didn’t I?
“This place is mine. You can have your original era. You could be happy living there, couldn’t you?”
“….”
“I just want to stay here! These things I’ve built up—!”
“You built them up?”
Lillian scoffed.
“What have you ever actually built in your own life? All you ever think about is using others to take the easy way out.”
“That’s not true! I—!”
“And I’m making sure you never do this again.”
From the nearest Temple and the places where the Ritual Sacrifice had been prepared, a brilliant white light now erupted.
“Now, Iris. The spell you prepared is broken.”
“W-wait.”
“So what happens now?”
“…!”
“Have you heard of Reverse Runaway?”
Something similar, Lillian whispered softly.
“Ah, no….”
Iris flailed at her hands, which were turning purple with necrosis.
“Sister, please, make this stop.”
Her strength was draining away.
Death would be better!
“Sister, please…!”
But even as Iris’s voice cracked with despair, Lillian didn’t blink an eye.
And from Iris’s body, all the S-rank Control Power she had once been so proud of was completely drained away.

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